約翰•丹頓(John Darnton)
他曾經是《紐約時報》著名記者。
他兩度奪得喬治•波爾剋奬。更憑藉一則在冷戰時期偷渡齣波蘭的故事,榮膺普利策奬。
他的第一部暢銷之作《尼安德特人》被譽為“具有廣博知識的一種娛樂性閱讀”。導演斯皮爾伯格購買瞭這本書的電影改編權。
他所有的作品,包括《尼安德特人》、《生命》、《靈魂捕手》和《實驗》等都是美國當年最紅小說,均被翻譯成多種語種。
In this riveting new novel, best-selling author John Darnton transports us to Victorian England and around the world to reveal the secrets of a legendary nineteenth-century figure. Darnton elegantly blends the power of fact and the insights of fiction to explore the many mysteries attached to the life and work of Charles Darwin.
What led Darwin to the theory of evolution? Why did he wait twenty-two years to write On the Origin of Species? Why was he incapacitated by mysterious illnesses and frightened of travel? Who was his secret rival? These are some of the questions driving Darnton’s richly dramatic narrative, which unfolds through three vivid points of view: Darwin’s own as he sails around the world aboard the Beagle; his daughter Lizzie’s as she strives to understand the guilt and fear that struck her father at the height of his fame; and that of present-day anthropologist Hugh Kellem and Darwin scholar Beth Dulicmer, whose obsession with Darwin (and with each other) drives them beyond the accepted boundaries of scholarly research. What Hugh and Beth discover–Lizzie’s diaries and letters lead them to a hidden chapter of Darwin’s autobiography–is a maze of bitter rivalries, petty deceptions, and jealously guarded secrets, at the heart of which lies the birth of the theory of evolution.
With The Darwin Conspiracy, John Darnton again delivers a stunning tapestry of history and imagination, a galvanizing novel.
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